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UNAIDS Launches Educational 360-Degree Series Ahead Of World AIDS Day

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South Africa alone currently has 7.2 The program is currently being implemented in schools, clinics, and communities all across South Africa. According to the The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), roughly one quarter of people living with HIV are completely unaware of their status.

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Empowering Women in South Africa Through Design and VR

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TL;DR: In March of this year, Facebook was invited by non-profit organization Girls Invent Tomorrow to give two workshops on design and VR with local.

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China Expands VR and AR for Education with EON Reality Rollout

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In addition to EON Reality’s Global Emergency Initiative leading schools in countries like Italy , South Africa , and Kosovo to use the AVR Platform, China’s latest step in its VR and AR adoption follows the decision to set up an Interactive Digital Center in Jinshui. ” Dan Lejerskar Founder of EON Reality.

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Reading List: 50 Scifi Books Featuring AR and VR Technology

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Renie Sulaweyo, a teacher in the South Africa of tomorrow, realizes something is wrong on the network. But one dark night Richard is brutally murdered in his workshop. Past, present, and future Brazil, with all its color, passion, and shifting realities, come together in a novel that is part SF, part history, and part mystery.

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Using XR to Enhance the Hardhat, with Trimble’s Jordan Lawver

XR for Business Podcast

And so mixed reality is allowing them to remotely — you could have an office in Toronto — remotely monitoring a mine in South Africa, sitting at their desk but wearing a device. So that’s what Connected Mine does. And it went from six hours of collecting data with a tape measure to literally minutes. So, really cool.

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Using XR to Enhance the Hardhat, with Trimble’s Jordan Lawver

XR for Business Podcast

And so mixed reality is allowing them to remotely — you could have an office in Toronto — remotely monitoring a mine in South Africa, sitting at their desk but wearing a device. So that’s what Connected Mine does. And it went from six hours of collecting data with a tape measure to literally minutes. So, really cool.

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Using XR to Enhance the Hardhat, with Trimble's Jordan Lawver

XR for Business Podcast

And so mixed reality is allowing them to remotely -- you could have an office in Toronto -- remotely monitoring a mine in South Africa, sitting at their desk but wearing a device. We actually had them here in our office at one point last year during a workshop with our developers, and they've done some amazing work over there.

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